145. Religion is fatal to political ameliorations: it makes despots
licentious and wicked, and their subjects abject and miserable

146. Christianity has propagated itself by preaching implicit obedience
to despotism

147. One object of religious principles is to eternize the tyranny
of kings

148. How fatal it is to persuade kings that they are responsible for
their actions to God alone

149. A devout king is the scourge of his kingdom

150. Tyranny sometimes finds the aegis of Religion a weak obstacle
to the despair of the people

151. Religion favours the wickedness of princes by delivering them
from fear and remorse

152. What is an enlightened Sovereign?

153. Of the prevailing passions and crimes of the priesthood

154. The quackery of priests

155. Religion has corrupted Morality, and produced innumerable evils

156. Every Religion is intolerant